It is ashame to say it, but when even the Washington Times, one of the most conservative papers in the USA, predicts the demise of the Tory party in an unabashed editorial, you know Ian DUncan Smith can’t sink much lower.

“Mr. Blair’s two election triumphs in 1996 and 2001 have brought ruin to the Conservative Party. Once it was a party with a definable national constituency. Today it is little more than a regional party”

Read the entire article and have a laugh. Some of the Tory back benchers are probably putting this one in the scrapbook.